Justin Guimaraes


Reviewed by Crystal


YouTube videos of jerking — a new dance with its own quickly moving music and a style of dress? Julian Goins, the 15-year-old leader of the Ranger$, a five-member jerking crew, hops onto the tips of his sneakers — the Tippy Toe — and then swivels his body ground-ward, legs crossed at the ankle.The Ranger$ are a group of jerker's in Atlanta and they are popular on the internet. There are several moves when it comes to jerking like The pin drop, reject, the jerk, tippy toe,the tower, Melbourne shuffle,etc. He pops up like a jack-in-the-box, spins and bounces, gliding backward in the Reject, a move that resembles nothing so much as the Running Man, but in reverse.This dance was originated in the 90s. The other kids in the schoolyard pay close attention to the jerking crews doing there thing. Until his Ranger$ schedule exploded and his mother decided to home-school him, Julian was just another student.
Goofy, gentle, amateurish, jerking was little known outside certain precincts of this sprawling city until a year ago. But in the last nine months or so, jerking began an unexpected run as a new Internet creation.
When the New Boyz (two teenagers) who had been playing high school auditoriums — released “Your a Jerk,” the song raced up the Billboard ladder, sold 750,000 copies on iTunes and another 400,000 ring tones, provided the duo with a base for a national tour and, of course, gave rise to untold copycats.The New Boyz were not popular at all before and are still not popular. There has been many jerking crews like The Cold Flamez, The Ranger$, New Boyz, Pink Dollaz, and more.You can watch all of these jerking crews on Blue-tube.com.